A teacher who is optimistic about AI’s potential in education is nevertheless adamant about not using it to give students ...
Jessica Lifshitz noticed a shift in the writing stamina of her fifth graders in recent years. Students weren’t connecting to text-heavy personal narratives in the way that they used to. She couldn’t ...
If you teach college students for a long time (I’ve been at it for more than 40 years at more than one institution), you get to see young people go through powerful changes. After all, most are ...
Anne Paonessa is the author of Essential Connection Skills (Corwin, 2025) and founder of ConnectED Classrooms: Picture this: A student sits at their desk, staring at a math problem that seems ...
I once had a student who used AI to generate several of his assignments. The first assignment in my class is an ethnography paper in which students discuss the culture they most identify with and the ...
In my composition class at Sichuan University, in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu, the first assignment was a personal essay. I gave some prompts in case students had trouble coming up with ...
For three years, our kids and teachers dealt with learning via Zoom. Now, they’re facing a new challenge: learning how to navigate artificial intelligence in the classroom. 2023 will be the first year ...
The transition from card games with family to lessons in a classroom after winter break is tough for both students and teachers. Young students who are eager to get back to school may struggle to fall ...